I haven't been able to find an option in Rox-Filer for changing the order of the colums in detail view. If someone can tell me of a way to do that, I will be totally embarassed by this post.

The Permissions, Owner, and Group columns are secondary information I don't use often (especially since I'm root in Puppy). I wanted the Size and Last Modified columns closer to the Name column so I moved a few lines of code in the source file of Rox-Filer and compiled it. I used Barry's rox-filer-20100908smw-patched.tar.gz source files. I have been testing the modified version in Lupu 5.0 and it appears to be completely functional.

I'm using a frugal install so recovering from any problems is extremely easy. Some thought should be given to recovery if you want to use the modified ROX-Filer file.

If you would like to try the modified version, these insturctions should work.
1. Download ROX-Filer-COL-MOD and place it in /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer.
MD5: 26781333a0451897e148b1e4090fd15d (for tar.gz)
2. Rename the existing /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer to /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/ROX-Filer-original.
3. In the /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer folder make a symlink ROX-Filer pointing to ROX-Filer-COL-MOD. (Right click on ROX-Filer-COL-MOD and select Link).
4. Click on anything that will open a Rox window and you will have the modified version working for you.

If you decide this mod isn't for you just delete the symlink and rename ROX-Filer-orignal to ROX-Filer.

I for one am very interested in changing the column order in ROX, particularly to get the date modified onto my monitor screen, if not right next to the file name!

I hope your mod works (I'll try it tonight) and I can change all the ROX set-ups in my Pups.

Pity I can't just drag and drop the ROX columns into a better ordering or delete all the ones I don't use. This is probably my main grumble with ROX which has been otherwise very good once I got used to it (coming from XP Windows Explorer).

Thanks for the reply davids45.
You can give the file a test drive before installing to see if you like the layout. just click on the file after unpacking. If you like, go ahead with the install. I would like to hear how it turns out. I haven't had any problems since I started using it a few days ago.

I've attached documentation for the mod. As previously mentioned it uses the source in rox-filer-20100908smw-patched.tar.gz located at Barry's site.

I tried it in a Quirky Retro 1.2 and a Puppy 4.21 (both full installs).
In neither did the new ROX-Filer run, and on re-starting X in one try, I lost my desktop (temporarily).
Restoring the original ROX-Filer worked with both Pups so no harm done.

I still think you are trying to do a worthwhile improvement to ROX so if there's something else I should try, or you'd like to know, let me know.

I've modified ROX-filer 2.11 (Sourceforge) to allow treeview moveable columns (click and drag). Compiled on Polarpup-005, so it should work on any lucid version. I regularly sort using file size and mod time, so it's nice to change the column orders.

Backup your ROX-Filer binary, swap in the attached file and then restart xorg for the changes to take effect.

Rocket, that's great.. Could you compile a Wary 5.1.x version? It is the 'base' of all modern puppies... It would be great if built the same as the one in Wary, but with your changes.. _________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search

Same problem with IcePuppy which I am using atm. Gcc is same version than in Polarpup-005, kernel is different though. IcePuppies uses 2.6.38.4.
Clicking Permissions shuts down Rox-filer. Launched in terminal, no error messages.

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